Patrick听Greaney
- Professor
- GERMAN PROGRAM
Patrick Greaney鈥檚 research and creative work focuses on literature, design, and modern and contemporary art in Austria, Germany, and Argentina.
He also works as a literary translator, editor, and curator. He has curated exhibitions of contemporary art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and听the Museum of Contemporary Art Boulder. From 2014 to 2020, he edited a literary translation series for Les Figues Press in Los Angeles.
Professor Greaney received a BA in comparative literature from Yale University and an MA in German Studies and a PhD in comparative literature from Johns Hopkins University. He also studied at the University of Konstanz, the Charles S. Singleton Center for Italian Studies in Florence, the University of Buenos Aires, and the 脡cole normale sup茅rieure (rue d鈥橴lm) in Paris.
Recent and forthcoming publications:
Article: 鈥淔assbinder, Functionalism, and the Beauty of Braun Design.鈥澨Critical Inquiry听51.2 (Autumn 2024), 135-165.
Translated and edited book: Heimrad B盲cker,听On Documentary Poetry听(Winter Editions, 2024)
Co-edited book:听Magical Episodes and Other Synchronicities: The Transhemispheric Correspondence of Scott Burton and Eduardo Costa, 1970-1989听(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025), co-edited with David J. Getsy
Book chapter:听鈥淎 Pavilion for a Counterpublic: Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl鈥檚 Invitation of the Soft Machine and Her Angry Body Parts,鈥 in Agust铆n Corti, ed.,听Alles inszeniert? Leben, Identit盲t, Geschichte听(LIT Verlag, 2023)
Peer-reviewed monographs:
Quotational Practices: Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art.听Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Reviews:听Cultural Theory听(2016), Visual Studies听30.3听(2015), Sprachkunst听44.2 (2015), Review of Contemporary Fiction, ARTNews Magazine听online (鈥14 New Art History Books to Change Your Mind,鈥 6/24/14).
Untimely Beggar: Poverty and Power from Baudelaire to Benjamin.听Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Reviews: German Studies Review 32.1 (2009), German Quarterly 82.2 (2009), French Studies 63.4 (2009), H-France Review 9 (2009), and Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature 33.2 (2009), Zeitschrift f眉r deutsche Philologie 127.4 (2008).
Edited and Translated Books:
(All translations from German unless otherwise noted)
Edited: Magic Episodes and Other Synchronicities: The Transhemispheric Correspondence of Scott Burton and Eduardo Costa, 1970鈥1989. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025. Co-edited with David Getsy, with cowritten introduction. Book accepted for publication.
Edited and translated: Heimrad B盲cker, Documentary Poetry. Winter Editions, 2024. With an introductory essay. Reviews:听Jewish Book Council (7 October 2024), Asymptote, Substack of Johanna Drucker, Textual Practice
Translated: Carlos Soto Rom谩n, 11. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023. Translated from Spanish. Member of 7-member translation team. Selected reviews:听Times Literary Supplement, The Brooklyn Rail,听Asymptote,听The Morning Star.
Edited and translated:听An Austrian Avant-Garde. Co-edited and co-written introduction with Sabine Zelger. Translated by Patrick Greaney. Les Figues Press, 2020. Review: Journal of Austrian Studies, Caesura.
Edited:听Guido Ignatti: Setup. MCA Denver, 2016. With essays by Andrea Giunta and Patrick Greaney and a foreword by Adam Lerner.
Edited:听Conceptualism and Other Fictions: The Collected Writings of Eduardo Costa, 1965-2015. Les Figues Press, 2016. Reviews: Art in America and The Georgia Review. Reprinted听inManuela Moscoso and Santiago Villanueva, eds., Eduardo Costa: las relaciones mentales.听Mexico City: Museo Tamayo, 2017.
Translated: Heimrad B盲cker, SEASCAPE. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013. Afterword by Charles Bernstein.听 Reviews:听Raintaxi, Constant Critic听blog, Journal of Artists鈥 Books, Poetry Foundation听blog.
Translated: Urs Allemann, The Old Man and the Bench: A Five-Month Twaddle. Dalkey Archive Press, 2015. Afterword by Patrick Greaney. Reviews:听Vice, The Times Literary Supplement, Words Without Borders, Full Stop.
Translated: Heimrad B盲cker, Documentary Poetry (No Press, 2014). Bilingual edition. Translated with Jacquelyn Deal. Chapbook. Reprint:Jacket2.
Edited:听Heimrad B盲cker: Landscape M. (Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 2013). With essays by Patrick Greaney, Martin Hochleitner, and Adam Lerner.
Translated: Heimrad B盲cker, transcript. Dalkey Archive Press, 2010. Afterword by Patrick Greaney. Translated with Vincent Kling. Reviews: The Times Literary Supplement, Bomb and听on the web logs of the New York Review of Books (Charles Simic), Tablet, and Charles Bernstein; weekly selection in 鈥淭op Shelf: Recommended Reading鈥 in The San Francisco Gate.
Exhibitions:
鈥淕uido Ignatti: Setup.鈥 Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 2016.
鈥淕uido Ignatti: Tapiados.鈥 David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, 2016.
鈥淗eimrad B盲cker: Landscape M.鈥 Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 2013-2014. Reviews: X-Tra Art Quarterly, Artforum, The Denver Post, and the syndicated PBS program Arts District.
鈥淐ausalgia: Michael Merighi鈥檚 Photographs of VALIE EXPORT.鈥 Counterpath Gallery, Denver, 2013.
鈥淰anessa Place: The Lawyer is Present.鈥 Exhibition and performance. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013.